we've been abandoned by our government (not that they cared anyways), and we're forced to go to work because of that fact. Individualism and american exceptionalism has poisoned the country, no one gives a fuck about each other, and we're all gonna fucking die because of some fucking rich colonials that thought we were special
I was pretty mentally prepared. Noticing in high school history class that most people live through a plague, listening to the warning signs from epidemiologists for the last ten years, evaluating the state of the US's health care system[1] when coronavirus won the gets-to-be-our-pandemic lottery. So far it's been going better than expected.
The thing that does get to me though is watching liberals keep doubling down on individual action, not doing anything, and hoping somebody else fixes it.
[1] Illegitimate, as all states are.